The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-04-01
WISCONSIN LEGISLATURE.

CANAIE-blllS were passed on tn <oQ SpoCl-
fylng periods during which fish may be caught
the inland waters of the State; making
counties liable for injuries to persons the same
as property during riots. Assembly bills were
concurred in permitting the appointment of
public administrators and guardians in case
those appointed by viii fail to act; compelling
Gowns and cit es to organize local boards Of
health; incorporating the cities of Durand, Al
toona and Rice Lake; requiring the taxation of
bank stock in the county where the bank is To-
Gated; making the maximum penalty for SD
Quoting minors 5000 fine or three years I'M
prisonment; requiring mortgagor - stock of
goods to file an inventory every SIXTY days, and
increasing the penalty for fraudulently selling
encountered real estate. An Assembly bill was
Killed which made it misdemeanor for public
officers. by bribery, abuse or trickery to extort
3 confession from prisoner.
AsSEMBLY-Bills were passed Incorporating
The cities of Durand and Rice Lake. Bills
Fere killed to abolish the State Pension
agency; to regulate the practice of medicine
by compelling persons, before being able to
practice medicine, to have either diploma or
to pass an examination before a committee.
limiting the hours which women or persons I'M
der eighteen years of age shall work in fac
tories to eight hours daily; for the settlement
of labor troubles by arbitration; making the
Commissioner OF Labor Statistics and State
Pension Agent executive officers.
SENATE-On the Gath the joint resolution was
adopted providing for a constitutional amend
ment raising the minimum school age from
four to six years. Bills were passed constitute
ing the counties of Ashland, Bayfield, Sawyer
Price, Taylor and Oneida the Fifteenth Judicial
Circuit district and permitting servants and
menials to seize all articles in payment OF
wages except sacred articles. Assembly bills
were concurred in permitting not less than
twenty-five persons residing in the same city
or village, who own $4,000 worth of property
to organize local fire insurance companies; pro-
hibiting elections from being held in saloons or
adjoining rooms; requiring manufacturers to
place the grade of cheese on all boxes sold and
prohibiting State aid to any society permitting
HQuor-selling or gambling on its grounds dur
ing fairs.
ASSEMBLY-Tle resolution calling for gem
eral law for the incorporation of cities was
killed. The memorial asking Congress to re-
strict the immigration of foreigners of the
vicious and defective classes was coneurred in
Bills were passed to require the State Pension
Agent to live at Madison and devote all his
time to his office, and to prohibit the sale or
giving away or exhibiting obscene literature or
Illustrations, under penalty not exceeding 500.
The Senate bills were concurred in to make
unlawful intimacy with a girl under four
teen years of age punishable by impris-
onment for life; prohibiting municipal
subscriptions to railroad stocks vesting
supervision of common schools in a State
Superintendent and such other officers as the
Legislature may direct; prohibiting school dis.
trscts from borrowing money for longer period
than twenty years; making the sale, giving
away or exhibition of obscene literature or il
Illustrations punishable by maximum imprison-
ment of three months or by fine not to ex-
coed $780, Bills were killed creating the office
of dairy commissioner; prohibiting persons
from alzing on railway tracks; compelling
railways to make close train connections at
functions; prohibiting the use of dangerous
illuminants in railway passenger coaches, and
requiring safe to be placed in sleeping-cars
for the safe keeping of Valuables of passengers.
SENATE--A bill was passed on the 25th to
provide for the giving of temporary aid to old
soldiers, without requiring their removal to
poorhouses. Assembly bills were concurred
in providing that no mortgage given by a
married man on articles of necessity in the
household should be valid. unless sig led by the
wife; requiring voters of school districts to
vote at annual shool meetings ON
the question of providing free text
books for the pupils of the district; inflict.
ing penalty of Imprisonment for not less
than fifteen days on any parent who
shall desert his or her family which may be in
gent election law for the city of Milwaukee.
Bills were indefinitely postponed-To prevent
the hiring of armed men by persons and cOrpo-
rations within the State; eXempting the prop
erty of religious, scientific, literary or benevo-
lent associations from taxation; to prevent the
employment of children under fourteen years
of age in factories, stores, workshops and else.
where. Adjourned to the 28th.
AssEMBLY-A bill was passed requiring the
railway companies of the State to give annual
free passes over all lines in the State to mem,
bers of the Legislature, elective State officers
and judges of courts of record by vote of 40 to
SO, other bills were passed fixing penalty of
from one to five years in prison. or from $500 tC
5000 fine, for the wilful or malicious de.
struction of ballots, except when authorized
by law, PERMITTING counties TO aid towns in the
construction or repairing of highways, the
counties to furnish an equal amount of money
with the towns. Adjourned to the 28th.
SENATE-On the 28th Assembly bills were
concurred in increasing the penalty for keeping
opium dens; making it a misdemeanor for an
officer to extort confession from prisoner by
any Unfair MEANS and exempting from iudg
ment levy the earn ngs of all persons with a
dependent family to the extent of $50 monthly.
Bills were killed forbidding unjust discrimina-
ton by common carriers and forbidding the
sale of liquor to persons who during tho last
year have been convicted of drunkenness.
ASsEMBLY-Bills were killed prohibiting the
wrongful wearing of Grand Army badges, and
requiring the appointment of a State Bank Elk.
aminer. A resolution providing for Govern
mental control of the coal lands was defeated
| The Governors veto of the bill to indemnify
| persons elected from lands sold by the State by
reason of defective title, on the ground that il
gave the State no opportunity to contest any
claim even if it be meritorious, was sustained.